[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

Sat Jun 10 10:09:57 UTC 2006

On 6/10/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/10/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/10/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > > I don't see it as making it impossible to change, but rather saying
> > that
> > > violating "whatever makes sense for the topic" is the only good reason
> >
> > > to change from one to the other.
> >
> > Not surprisingly, that rarely helps. Most topics are not strongly
> > associated with one form of English or another. How about this
> > scenario: The original "contributor" writes 2 paragraphs in AmE.
> > Later, a group of British editors decides to expand the article to 40
> > paragraphs. According to our guidelines, they would not be justified
> > in changing to BE.
> >
> > As I see it, the change just has to be justfied by some tangible
> > benefit. Here, the benefit is clear - great expansion of the article.
> >
>
> Good writers should also be able to write in a style contrary to their
> own: in this case, writing AE when BE is their preference.
>

Although your example would be a good example of when AE to BE would be
acceptable.